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Re: repeatable cvs(1) coredump



On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, RVP wrote:

This looks like an atexit() handler `error()' trying to print a
(localeized) error msg. for EPIPE and crashing in the C library.

The CVS code is doing some iffy things in general: like calling
exit() from within atexit() and signal handlers.


This is actually fallout from the work that christos@ and I are
doing to make stdio's writes restartable in the face of transient
I/O errors--like EINTR. Our ATF test missed this scenario. Christos
has already committed the fix. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-RVP


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